Army of Dankness - Bruce's Budtastical Battlepalooza

[Bruce Campbell]

Duke vs. RBF

Had to stake / trellis the Duke and prune some of the lower colas - just way too stretchy and hollow this early. Although, they seem to be beefing up as stretch ends. RBF is already starting to puff-ball.

When they get this tall, I typically LST-spiral them around the trellis and then HST and support off the stakes if need be. That way, I can still rotate / remove them from the tent if I have to.

Picked up an extra AC Infinity tent fan (but probably should've gotten four). Keeping the blown COB over the Duke for the rest of the grow.
Next grow(s), I should probably try intentionally reducing lighting / nitrogen during stretch to see if they stay shorter - I may prefer that over the extra yield. If/when I replace the light, leaning towards Migro Aray , Atreum Hydra, or HLP Rspec - but, I already blew this grow budget on side projects.

RBF is looking like a GD monster, though - diameter of main stalk is twice that of Duke.

Deadite vs. Lecter

Doing well and starting to stretch. Pics I've seen make these look tall and sparse to begin with, so I reduced N and lighting hrs a bit since my plants tend to be stretchier than most. Progress-wise, they still look like normal 90-day plants. Will be interesting to see what happens in the next month.

 

[Bruce Campbell]

Project Updates

So, the Lil' Buddy couldn't really keep up once I increased the water removal amounts - as expected. But, I planned to use a consumer-grade wine fridge anyways. Had to re-order off amazon, so should arrive next week.

But, on the other hand, I found a way to control humidity in automated dryers without an external drain or sponge for condensate management:

And, turns out, you can also use household materials to make a macro-encapsulated PCM for thermal energy storage to support and/or replace thermoelectric heating and cooling during automated drying and curing. You just need a lot of it if you're going to use standard consumer-grade materials:

 

[KingRatt]

Lol. Damn. Thank you - that compliment hits me kinda deep.

I've always wanted to re-write this:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"Zen and the Art of Bruce Campbell" has a nice ring to it. In today's market, I think it'd have to be a cross-platform combo of written articles, powerpoint lecture videos, and podcasts. And spreadsheets, of course. Maybe some Venn diagrams, too, if I'm feelin' saucy....

That is a great book! And a great idea! Id read it!

 

[Bruce Campbell]

Duke vs. RBF

All quiet on the cannabis front - just daily rotation and training to try to keep them away from the lights. RBF could use a trim and haircut.

Will probably give them another 2 weeks or so before I switch to bloom feed (i.e., cut nitrogen).

Deadite vs. Lecter

Sawney's are starting to get fun, though. They seem to have started sexing in the middle of stretch. Or, I've been intentionally keeping lights low to limit stretch - maybe I ran right past it. Will be interesting to see what happens next grow-around if I control them better.

Other Project Updates

Wine fridge finally arrived, so time to start playing around with that. I found a way to get it to automatically upload temp / RH to a google spreadsheet. ESP32's are frickin' cool, man.

Eventually, I'll probably modify my plant scales to do the same. But, I need to buy a new 3d printer first. I should probably start graphing cash flows during my grows...

 

[Bruce Campbell]

Project Updates

Unmodified wine fridge:

Wine fridge + Lil Buddy v0.3:

First half shows how it responds without any product - e.g., opening door, turning off fridge, etc. For second half, I added strawberries to model actually drying a product ("Open / Add Product"). Wasn't sure they were really drying at first, so I later added a cup of standing water ("Add Water"). But, when I checked the next day ("Remove Water"), it had removed 63g (54% weight) from the strawberries and 7g (6% wt) from the water cup over 17 hrs. That gives a net rate of 99 g/day - should be on track to work well enough. If nothing else, great way to make fruit leather.

 

[Bruce Campbell]

Duke vs. RBF

Clean up leaves. Rotate. Train. Feed. Repeat.

Still on veg feed. Maybe 1-2 more weeks.

Deadite vs. Lecter

Swapped lights between main and closet grows. Lecter's at ~36-in tall. Their fastness is really starting to show - they'll start getting bloom feed this week.

 

[Sawney_bean]

Excellent growth on them all mate keep it up .

 

[Sawney_bean]

Can you post the pics of my stuff on my page please mate . I think there will be a few amazed followers. Great work

 

[Bruce Campbell]

Forgot to update last week:

If I try to remember my general impressions from back then:

RBF vs. Duke: For the love of god, stop growing so close to the lights!

Deadite vs. Lecter: Nice buds forming, but hard to imagine they'll be ready to harvest in the next two weeks...

 

[Bruce Campbell]

RBF vs. Duke

They're on bloom nutes now and will probably be just 'rotate, tie down, feed' for the next 3 weeks or so.

Deadite vs. Lecter

None of the hairs were orange last week, so thought there was no way they'd be ready ~day 60. But, they surprised me again and pistils started drying out already. May be done in a week, but I should tell myself '2 more weeks' for now. I don't scope trichomes, so I'll just be eyeballing it. May start sampling buds this week, though.

Deadite topped out around 30", Lecter just above 36". Deadite's pistils are so dense they almost look cheesy.